

Ango Opening: What’s Your Story?
Seido talks about the Dharma Cloud practice of telling one’s life story to open the fall practice period. It’s through the release of...
Sep 2, 2022


Blue Cliff Case 78: 16 Bodhisattvas Enter the Bath
Seido reflects on this koan and its relationship to what unfolded during a recent sesshin at Empty Field Zendo for 17 practitioners. In...
Aug 26, 2022


Blue Cliff Case 43: Dongshan’s Heat and Cold
Seido talks about our propensity to avoid discomfort and the invitation from this koan to become intimate with life that says “yes”...
Jul 29, 2022


Case 52: Zhaozhou’s Bridge
A disappointed monk traveling to great Master Joshu’s monastery challenges the teacher about what Zen is supposed to look like. Seido...
Jul 15, 2022


Case 91: Yanguan’s Rhinoceros Fan
Seido opens this summer’s koan study with suggestions on how to engage these classical exchanges not from the thinking mind but on a more...
Jul 8, 2022
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